Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, known for topping the charts around the world with the 1990 song “Nothing Compares 2 U”, has died at the age of 56, Irish national broadcaster RTE quoted her family as saying on Wednesday.

A self-portrait by Johnny Depp went on sale.

Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs.

With arms outstretched like bird’s wings in the traditional “swallow style”, Evald Krnic plunged.

Fans who play Pokemon late into the night have a new incentive to get to bed in the form of a sleep app that rewards them with the franchise’s signature monsters.

Venice presented a powerful line-up for its forthcoming film festival.

It’s a sign of our ever-hotter times that the quiet contemplation of nature typical of centuries of verse has given way to activism in the emerging genre of ecopoetry that takes centre stage at a London festival this weekend.

Every Sunday, worshippers at Bethesda Home Church in Lagos sing and dance to popular hymns.

Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans descended on Seattle ahead of the pop star’s “The Eras Tour”, her latest stop in tourism-boosting concerts.

Matthew Keith bought his first Barbie dolls in the 1970s using his allowance money.

“Try That in a Small Town,” which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single “Seven,” featuring Latto.